If there is any one thing that can bring your creativity to a halt, it's a negative attitude. If you think everything is bad, then it will be. The news media has the power of negative thinking and will only report the worst. It's catchy, all that doom and gloom and it's easy to get stuck in their quicksand. …
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...and you House Beautiful, Real Simple and Martha Stewart Living and all you other home decorating and lifestyle magazines.
I dare you to do a feature or series on buying art for the home on the Internet. Readers are ready for some new ideas. They are sick of you featuring what is the newest cool thing at Target. Design tips like wrapping fabric around a stretcher frame ala Merimekko has been done and done and done. So has finding some object in the junkyard, spray painting it and hanging it on the wall as art. Readers regularly buy everyday home goods from the Internet, why not art? Because you don't tell them to.…
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In the spirit of this loving season, we decided to make a little video for Eugene to let him know how much we appreciate all his work. Eugene is our programmer, he's the guy that makes all the features and functions of ArtId work. He's the one who understands all the code that's gibberish to us. Eugene lives outside Moscow, Russia and English is not his first language. Despite time differences and language issues we are able to make ArtId happen. That's how cool the internet is, our programmer is in Russia! We don't even know if they celebrate Valentines Day in Russia, he might think we are all crazy, but at the least he'll know we appreciate his work…
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